1952 Olympics

Oslo

Dick Button, who had revolutionized figure skating with his athletic jumps and spins at St. Moritz in 1948, repeated his gold medal performance in '52. The 22–year-old Harvard senior also won the world championship for the fifth straight year, then turned pro.

Andrea Mead Lawrence, a 19–year-old whose parents built the Pico Peak ski resort in Vermont became the first U.S. skier to win two Olympic gold medals, taking both the slalom and giant slalom.

The star of the Games, however, was 28–year-old Norwegian truck driver Hjalmar Andersen who, urged on by his cheering countrymen, won three speed skating gold medals in three days and set Olympic records in two of the races.

The U.S. finished second to Norway in the overall medal count and was runner-up to Canada in hockey. The gold medal was the Canadians' seventh in eight Olympics and, as it turned out, their last for fifty years.

Top 10 Standings

National medal standings are not recognized by the IOC. The unofficial point totals are based on 3 points for a gold medal, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze. Total medals are in parentheses.

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Pts

1

Norway (16)

7

3

6

33

2

USA (11)

4

6

1

25

3

Finland (9)

3

4

2

19

4

Austria (8)

2

4

2

16

5

Germany (7)

3

2

2

15

6

Holland (3)

0

3

0

6

7

Canada (2)

1

0

1

4

Italy (2)

1

0

1

4

Sweden (4)

0

0

4

4

10

Great Britain (1)

1

0

0

3

Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No

Sport

G-S-B

3

Hjalmar Andersen, NOR

Sp. Skate

3-0-0

2

Andreas Ostler, GER

Bobsled

2-0-0

2

Lorenz Nieberl, GER

Bobsled

2-0-0

2

Hallgeir Brenden, NOR

X-country

1-1-0

2

Stein Eriksen, NOR

Alpine

1-1-0

2

Heikki Hasu, FIN

X-country

& Nordic Combined

1-1-0

2

Tapio Mäkelä, FIN

X-country

1-1-0

2

Othmar Schneider, AUT

Alpine

1-1-0

2

Paavo Lonkila, FIN

X-country

1-0-1

2

Stan Benham, USA

Bobsled

0-2-0

2

Kees Broekman, NED

Sp. Skate

0-2-0

2

Patrick Martin, USA

Bobsled

0-2-0

2

Magnar Estenstad, NOR

X-country

0-1-1

2

Christian Pravda, AUT

Alpine

0-1-1

2

Fritz Feierabend, SWI

Bobsled

0-0-2

2

Stephan Waser, SWI

Bobsled

0-0-2

Women

No

Sport

G-S-B

3

Annemarie Buchner, GER

Alpine

0-1-2

2

Andrea Mead Lawrence, USA

Alpine

2-0-0

Alpine Skiing

Men

Event

Time

Downhill

Zeno Colò, ITA

2:30.8

Slalom

Othmar Schneider, AUT

2:00.0

G.Slalom

Stein Eriksen, NOR

2:25.0

Women

Event

Time

Downhill

Trude Jochum-Beiser, AUT

1:47.1

Slalom

Andrea Mead Lawrence, USA

2:10.6

G.Slalom

Andrea Mead Lawrence, USA

2:06.8

Bobsled

Event

Time

2-Man

GER (Andreas Ostler & Lorenz Nieberl)

5:24.54

4-Man

GER (Andreas Ostler, Friedrich Kuhn,Lorenz Nieberl, Franz Kemser)

5:07.84

Figure Skating

Event

Points

Men

Dick Button, USA

1730.3

Women

Jeanette Altwegg, GBR

1455.8

Pairs

Ria Falk & Paul Falk, GER

102.6

Ice Hockey

Gm

W-L-T

Pts

GF

GA

1

Canada

8

7-0-1

15

71

14

2

USA

8

6-1-1

13

43

21

3

Sweden

8

6-2-0

12

48

19

4

Czechoslovakia

8

6-2-0

12

47

18

5

Switzerland

8

4-4-0

8

40

40

6

Poland

8

2-5-1

5

21

56

7

Finland

8

2-6-0

4

21

60

8

Germany

8

1-6-1

3

21

53

9

Norway

8

0-8-0

0

15

46

Note: Sweden defeated Czechoslovakia 5–3, in a playoff game to decide third place and the 1952 European championship.